She can smell and sense the smoke from the fire that will burn everything down … she’s leaving before everything goes to complete dog shit and everyone goes after these MAGA lunatics.

She knows the boat is sinking and has hopped onto one of the lifeboats before everyone panics and jumps into the ocean.

This would actually be interesting if it WASN’T labeled as ART

Practice your religion by yourself and speak and connect to your beliefs on your own. No one needs a public and constant display or acknowledgement of what you believe. And we don’t need to conform the entire world and everyone around to satisfy your beliefs and your religion. And a religion doesn’t need a billion dollar industry and infrastructure in order for it to exist.

If what you believe is moral, respectable, useful and beneficial to society, then there should never be a need to display your religion, your beliefs or to have the need to want to convert others by force or coercion. If what you believe is morally good for everyone, people will gravitate towards your religion … forcing it on others and onto society is a sure sign that what you believe has more to do with wanting control over others rather than in creating a belief system that would benefit people.

Which is why I look at it as a Plutocracy, a government run by money and the wealthy … rather than a democracy, a government run by the people.

It’s democratic (which is still a stretch) during an election.

But for the rest of the time, which is all the time, it’s Plutocratic

We like to play with definitions and we easily are critical of other nations but we never want to admit what our own systems actually represent. We are so blinded by our own status that we never consider that we don’t live in a democratic system ourselves.

It’s not “Gmail can read your emails” … Gmail has been reading your emails for years.

We only hear the loud lunatics because the quiet followers never say or do anything about them.

At this point in history, the image of Jesus Christ is a caricature of what he is supposed to represent. He is just an image and idea that is worshipped and that is all. No one cares about his teachings or his ideas, they just care about his image, praising him and getting their free ticket to heaven.

In essence, the image of Jesus Christ has become their golden calf that people mindlessly pray to and worship without thinking or wondering about what he actually represents.

I’m Indigenous Canadian and my parents were victims of the Residential School system in Canada in the 50s, 60s … residential ‘schools’ which were literal torture centers for Indigenous children run by Christian organizations.

From my point of view … Christian religion is bad as a whole.

And just like everything in the Bible, they take a grain of truth and turn it into a multimillion dollar pyramid scheme … or they use it as a weapon to go after people and groups they don’t like.

Personally I’m non religious, I think they’re all nuts. The origins of these religions might have started out with some noble goals that might have been for the good of humanity … but now it’s just a system of power, money and control to manipulate a gullible audience.

Is POTUS on that list?

I think they’re programming the ketamine into the LLM at this point

It’s a quote often attributed to Carl Sagan but I think it was around, or a quote like it has been around far longer.

I love the quote too and often remind people about it especially when they want to share information or knowledge that is extreme or not well known.

We do have to question the world and everything and everyone in it … but not to the point where we abandon reality.

I have sat and met with some mid level regional politicians and provincial politicians in the past. They’re all the same. There is something pathological with wanting to achieve a high office and then regardless of your political affiliation (I’m socially left and I always vote and support the New Democratic Party, left of the top Liberal left party in Canada) they all act in the best interests or influence of money and monied interests. I know they have to survive politically to do anything but at the same time, they’ll support monied interests even if it means the suffering of hundreds or thousands of people.

There is something fundamentally wrong with our modern mentality and social conditioning if our world is entirely based on the accumulation of wealth against everything including human comfort or even the right to life.

And that’s not even talking about the political figures who are conservative, very conservative or ultra conservative … they would rather dump entire segments of society if it meant it would advance their agenda.

It’s not fully evil … but it is a lot closer to evil than anything.

Not trusting anyone based on feelings or emotions rather than through knowledge, experience and unbiased information is also a very dangerous thing.

It can lead people down a path towards cults, religions, and authoritarian leaders and movements that have all the “answers” for you.

There is no greater power for an individual to have than a broad range of knowledge and information from reliable vetted, openly available, openly shared and universally accepted sources. If your guru has secret knowledge that no one knows about, chances are that information is either no good or it is unacceptable for a reason.

And also remember “keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out”

I see American and Canadian politicians on TV news every day (I’m Canadian by the way)

The epitome of evil to me is in watching a group of wealthy affluent, influential people doing their absolute best day in and day out to keep their money and the money of those with way too much away from those who need it just to have a little bit of a life. They work to make us all miserable in order for them to keep having everything and to take even more from everyone else who have little or nothing.

The fuck is wrong with Americans?

If any other president had said the things he said over the past couple of months, the country would have exploded and a president either legally or through mass protest removed from office.

What’s so special about this orange nutjob?

The regular Coke is for a bit of sugar for nutrition

The irregular coke is to take the edge off

Surely you can’t be serious

Work hard enough to not get fired

but not so hard that it affects your health or your life

… and this guy doesn’t even work here